As election day draws near, the frightening lack of discourse on climate change is as alarming as environmental decline.
It’s been a few weeks since the Conservative Party and the Labour Party started dissing each other over their election manifestos. Yet, something missing from the key discourse has been the environment, and how to manage incoming hostilities catalysed by a rapidly changing climate.
Scientists have raised concerns over the alarming increase of global temperatures, with researchers suggesting it has doubled over the past 15 years.
It is an expected result, though still a dangerous forecast; one that politicians are failing to address.
Why aren’t politicians talking about the climate?
Both the Conservatives and the Labour Party have said that “elections are won from the centre ground”. What this means is they’re hope to woo an electorate of a certain leaning, one where a specific viewpoint is held, generally one that does not share concern of the climate.
The UK’s politics and economy is in a state of disarray, and it’s hard to see any future mention of the how to tackle the globe’s greatest foe. Working in tandem with such an apocalyptic scenario is the rise of fascism and fascists, who, it seems, share an inability to embrace science unless it suits their ambitions.
A rising trend is that individuals who reject such discourse tend to be on the right of the political spectrum. Rejecting articles of environmental influence is part and parcel of their stance, and explains Rishi Sunak’s and Keir Starmer’s disregard of such an important topic of debate.
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